Next Tuesday!

In case you missed it last week - Dr Julia Ng's lecture “A Politics of Inaction: Daoism in German-Jewish Thought” is now available to stream online. 🔗 lbilondon.ac.uk/ng-25 🔗 lbilondon.ac.uk/spotify 🔗 lbilondon.ac.uk/youtube

Are you going to #Limmud this year? Catch sessions from across BIAJS including (comment if we missed you!) @emilymichelson.bsky.social @anoushka-ar.bsky.social @josephfinlay.bsky.social @hannahewence.bsky.social @sophiebellamy.bsky.social @evafrojmovic0.bsky.social events.limmud.org/limmud-festi...

BISA's @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social, co-author with David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social and @bengidley.bsky.social, sets out the reasoning behind their recent letter to The Guardian

⚖️ NEW special issue 'Jewish Cultural Heritage, Minority Agency, and the State' in EthnoScripts: Contemporary Anthropology with BIAJS highlights from co-editors and contributors @samsamev.bsky.social and Yulia Egorova, and also by @anoushka-ar.bsky.social journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts...

Our next Archivist in the Spotlight is here... Hear from Edoardo Marcarini whose recent project was cataloguing and conserving the vast and varied archive of the Jewish Music Institute Read the blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi... #NewBlogPost #JewishMusic #Archives #Archivist

On Radio 4 right now, a classic episode of #InOurTime starring our friends Miri Rubin and Anthony Bale! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Looking forward to presenting @uclssees.bsky.social next week on Tea Arciszewska’s life and her (tragically timely) modernist play about children in wartime, “Miryeml.” @uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social

📜 Our 2025 bulletin is live! Read a message from our incoming president @bengidley.bsky.social, a report from this year's conference, details of our book prize, the CFP for our 2026 conference @bisa-bkk.bsky.social, reports from institutions & more ➡️ bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/u...

This Thursday at @uolsbc.bsky.social !

Now part of the Jewish Museum London collection, this is one of only two surviving Jewish union banners in Britain. Find out more: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/lo... #JewishHistory #JewishCulture #JewishCommunity #WorkingClassHistory #Archives

Read the latest newsletter from the Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies/Centre for German-Jewish Studies, @ldml.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gate...

Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with @sgollance.bsky.social, will discuss her translation of Tea Arciszewska’s play 'Miryeml' as part of a broader effort to uncover Yiddish plays by women. 🗓️ 2 December at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ buff.ly/dOMrzrO @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the first of the Nuremberg Trials, which led to the conviction of 19 of the most influential Nazi leaders. Southampton's collections include books on the trials and papers from the subsequent Nuremberg Military Tribunals.

Our friends Jewish History Association of South Wales are expanding their scope to the whole of Wales and have plenty of new projects celebrating Welsh Jewish heritage. Find out more: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/the-jew... #JewishHistory #JewishCulture #Archives #Wales #NewBlogPost

Join us for the final lecture in our 2025 Lecture Series, Belonging and Exclusion. Dr Julia Ng from Goldsmiths, University of London, will present A Politics of Inaction: Daoism in German-Jewish Thought on Thursday 27 November at 5.30pm. Book now: lbilondon.ac.uk/ng-25

Superb maps of Oxford's medieval Jewish heritage: www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/oxford-jewis...

TONIGHT

New pub from @yairwallach.bsky.social!

In her new book, People Without History are Dust, Dr Anna Hájková explores same-sex desire in the Holocaust, telling the gripping stories of queer Jews that have been long silenced by the homophobia of survivors. Sign up now to hear Dr Hájková speak about this important new work:

I have a new open-access article in the Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures series. It examines an unknown Judaeo-Arabic manuscript of Genesis from the 10th century. I argue that it's evidence of medieval Jews reciting the Bible in a formal register of Egyptian Arabic. doi.org/10.11647/obp...

Join us on 18 November! @uclhjs.bsky.social @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @medievaljews.bsky.social @leedsims.bsky.social

The Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe Jewish studies grants are now open. The Collaborative Fellowships in Jewish Heritage supports universities and heritage institutions to jointly recruit a PhD or postdoctoral fellow. Find out more: rothschildfoundation.eu/grants-page/... #Grants

Our PhD and a Cup of Tea series is back! For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period. Open for booking now:

Pictured: David Nachmann, around 1934. He was allowed to return to Chemnitz from Poland to wrap up his affairs, but was then arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social #Humap Learn more www.refugeemap.org/map/reco...

🚨 New faculty publication! 🚨 Ever wondered how the alphabet became what it is today? Part of the answer lies in Dr. Nathaniel E. Greene's new article (co-authored w/Prof. Jeremy M. Hutton, @uwmadison.bsky.social) investigating the origins of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician scripts. bit.ly/4pgYUiD

A wonderful blog about our collections and display on Redbridge's Jewish stories by Dr Rachel Lichtenstein 👇

Join us in London for BIAJS!

Languages and religious studies yet again on the list of courses axed in the UK higher education crisis. Solidarity to colleagues at @uonucu.bsky.social

Second Temple Early Career Academy Autumn 2025 Events (online) stecaonline.wordpress.com @stecacareers.bsky.social

The next British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies conference (conveniently located near @uclhjs.bsky.social, @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and the British Library) might also be of interest to @jewishstudies.bsky.social members.

Please spread the word bsky.app/profile/biaj... @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @jewishhistorical.bsky.social @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @hgrporg.bsky.social @seethetreasures.bsky.social @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social @lbilondon.bsky.social @ochjs.bsky.social

Join us in London in July! CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE #BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2025/11/03/c...

THURSDAY

8 December:

This week, we are delighted to welcome Kelsey Akers to the SBC family as a PhD student. Her research examines clothing designed or made by Jewish Holocaust survivors in the post-war years, either in their material form, photographic representations, or oral descriptions

Licoricia of Winchester: Power & Prejudice in Medieval England Tue 18 Nov 19:30 NW London Location tbd Award-winning Oxford author Rebecca Abrams talks about her book ‘Licoricia of Winchester’ - a most successful female financier in medieval England Book your place www.jhse.org/event-detail...

CBRL invites applications for Workshop Grants! 📑 🔹 Deadline: Friday - 16 Jan 2026 For more details and to apply: www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-wo...

This #MizrahiAwarenessMonth, we honour stories often left untold, the journeys of Jews from North Africa, like Raymond Dwek, who fled Egypt in 1957 & built a new life in Britain. His story is one of courage, belonging & hope. #CompassionNotCruelty🧡 🔗 lnkd.in/esVcYia3

More garbage from Grokipedia www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We are thrilled to host Dr Anna Hájková in conversation with Dr Christine Schmidt from @wienerlibrary.bsky.social on 10 Dec about 'People with History are Dust'. The book explores same-sex desire in the Holocaust, telling the stories of queer Jews that have been long silenced.

The book is here! This morning the UPS delivered fresh off the press my second monograph, People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, published by @uoftpress.bsky.social translated by @williamrossjones.bsky.social and with a foreword by @jennifervevans.bsky.social

Thrilled with the evening event. @milleridriss.bsky.social was brilliant, we had 200+ folks, and there were tons of good, difficult questions about misogyny and hate and the far right extremist pipeline.

Most read in the latest issue of the Journal of Jewish Studies ‘Study of the Masorah in the digital age’, by Elvira Martín-Contreras. Available to read online at: bit.ly/Masorah-in-the-digital-age @ochjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @emartincontreras.bsky.social

Cahun lived through the Nazi occupation of the island of Jersey, playing a vital part in the resistance.

Fascinating talk from @simchagross.bsky.social on rethinking Jewish relationship with their Zoroastrian/Sasanian environment - at UCL Institute for Jewish Studies - below is a recording of a similar lecture he gave last year www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qry...

"The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind." ~ Anderson Cooper Visuals: Europe, 1926, from @wienerlibrary.bsky.social www.refugeemap.org/map/over... #Maps #GIS #HGIS #DH

📣 We're hiring! Join us for a fixed-term part time role at the Library as our Research and Engagement Officer. We are seeking a highly motivated and knowledgeable individual with a postgraduate qualification in Holocaust Studies or a closely related field. Find out more and apply: buff.ly/KuadEMU

🚨THIS WEEK: Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine hybrid conference co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...

#BANEA2026 will take place in London, 22–24 April 2026, under the theme Production and Consumption of Knowledge in the Archaeology of West Asia. Planned sessions include history & historiography, maritime archaeology, museums & heritage, among others.